We have 2 presentations next week focusing on Tangible interfaces by Laura Pruszko and Anna Carter. Talk 1: Designing for Modularity – a modular approach to physical user interfaces Abstract: Designing for Modularity – a modular approach to physical user interfaces by Laura Pruszko Physical user interfaces, future or history? While some of our old … Seminar: Tangible User Interfaces 13th March 2024
Abstract: Alex will discuss a critique of modern software engineering and outline how it systematically produces systems that have negative social consequences. To help counter this trend, he offers the notion of rights-driven development, which puts the concept of a right at the heart of software engineering practices. Alex’s first step to develop rights-driven practices … SACHI Seminar: Rights-driven Development
The AI seminar on 7th Dec 2023 will feature Prof Simon Dobson who will be talking about “Some stuff about sheaves”. The seminar will be at 11am in JCB1.33a. If you would like to join online, please email rh347@st-andrews.ac.uk for a link to the call.
We had our first School seminar of the semester today. The speaker was André G. Pereira visiting Scotland on a SICSA DVF Fellowship. André is working on AI Planning problems, an area that is closely related to the work of our own Constraint Programming research group. Title: Understanding Neuro-Symbolic Planning Abstract: In this seminar, we … SICSA DVF Seminar – Dr André G. Pereira
Accelerating Research Software Understandability Through Knowledge Capture Daniel Garijo Summary: Research Software is key to understand, reproduce and reuse existing work in many disciplines, ranging from Geosciences to Astronomy or Artificial Intelligence. However, research software is usually difficult to find, reuse, compare and understand due to its disconnected documentation (dispersed in manuals, readme files, web … Seminar Talk from a SICSA visitor (Daniel Garijo) Friday 10 June, 11.00am
Can Language Models be Weak Annotators We are happy to have Phong Le, from Amazon, talk on Teams on Wed 3 March at 12 noon on Teams. Abstract Deep language models e.g. BERT and GPT3 are the breakthrough in Natural Language Processing in the last 3 years. Being trained on massive raw text data, they … Seminar – Phong Le, Amazon – 3rd March 2021
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RESCHEDULED: please note the changed date and a non-standard time! Abstract: Prest is a recently published piece of open-source software for computational revealed preference analysis that provides novel ways to estimate decision makers’ preferences over choice alternatives by analysing their observable choice behaviour. This software is informed by classic as well as recent developments in … Georgios Gerasimou (University of St Andrews): Frontiers in computational revealed preference analysis
Abstract: Innovation and creativity are the research drivers of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community which is currently investing a vast amount of resources in the design and evaluation of “new” user interfaces and interaction techniques, leaving the correct functioning of these interfaces at the discretion of the helpless developers. In the area of formal methods … Philippe Palanque (University of Toulouse): Harnessing Usability, UX and Dependability for Interactions in Safety Critical Contexts
The medical school is holding a Seminar on Wednesday 8th January @1400-1530 New tools and methods to prevent blindness. Seminar room 1, Medical and Biological Sciences Building Dr. Andrew Blaikie, St Andrews Arclight Project Dr. Craig Robertson, CEO Epipole Ltd Hand held fundus cameras Prof Congdon, Queen’s University Belfast Overview of Global Ophthalmology